Ultimate Guitar recently caught up with Behemoth frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski to dicuss the making of the band's new album, I Loved You At Your Darkest. Following is an excerpt from the interview.

UG: You wanted to incorporate elements you’d gotten working with Me and That Man?

Nergal: "I did that and it kind of helped me out to go back to Behemoth because I had this extra experience and I was just more open. I would even open up my vocal abilities. When it came to tracking the vocals, I had already a few other aces in my sleeve. It’s still very Behemoth and very extreme but it’s also something more adventurous."

UG: When you were trying to bring more rock in the music, did you actually try and dial in different kinds of guitar tones to sort of emphasize this style?

Nergal: "Yes, absolutely. The first thing you should know is I composed all the material just playing an unplugged Gretsch guitar, which is a non-metal guitar. It’s a blues-rock whatever but it’s everything but a metal guitar so it doesn’t determine the way and what I play. OK? Because you cannot really do any shredding or fast picking on a Gretsch because it’s gonna sound shitty."

UG: Because there wasn’t that typical huge distortion on most metal guitars, you played different things?

Nergal: "Everything that was coming up was more spacious and there was more breath in the music and the riffs and the song structure."

Read the complete interview here.

Behemoth have unleashed their new album, I Loved You At Your Darkest, via Metal Blade Records (North America) / Nuclear Blast (Europe). In the new video below, Nergal performs a playthrough for the single "Bartzabel":

In another new video, Nergal unboxes his own LTD Signature Series guitar, the Nergal-6, and talks about some of the thoughts that went into its design. The Nergal-6 is available worldwide at authorized ESP dealers.